thomas.balint16

So I have a cooler master cosmos c700m case with 6x 140mm QL fans intake push pull with a 420mm corsair radiator the top is the same 6x 140mm push pull with 420 radiator but exhaust, and 1 fan in the back also exhaust. For my water cooling I have XD 5 pump /reservoir going into my 3080 strix corsair block and than into my CPU i 9 10900k after that going in the 2 radiators. I have 2 commanders. 1 is controlling the front 6 fans and the other one is controlling the rest (7). So when I go to setup the curves for the fans in wich commander should I plug the temp sensor from the pump? Into the commander controlling front fans or the one controlling the top? Is there a way to synchronize them? Becuse if I set the front fans to spin according to the liquid temperature. And the exhaust fans to something else than they won't spin the same. Not sure if it matters or not. Anyways just wanted to ask for some advice since this is my first ever water cooled build. What you guys recommend and also if you guys could help me with curves for the fans and pump. Noise honestly doesn't really matter. Maybe if I'm browsing and I dont have headset on I might not want the pc to be super loud. But when I'm gaming I just want things to stay cool. I won't hear the pc anyways with headset on and the pc is also in a separate room so won't bother anyoneelse either. I attached a pic to have a better idea. Thanks!

In COD i was getting between 35 -40 gpu temps the other day. Today house was bit warmer so it stayed between 40-45. But CPU temp in COD seems to get higher. With the fans not beeing to loud it got above 70 sometimes. Than I turned the fans up I got it down to between 62-67. I guess because in my loop I have the gpu first and than going into CPU that could affect it a bit. Also while I'm gaming I don't really care about the noise of the pc since I have headphones on. As long as it stays cool. One thing that worries me now is that after 2 -3 hours of gaming assasins creed and red dead randomly freezes and kicks me to desktop with no error message. Not sure what it could be. Yes I do need to figure out a good fan curve. I'll ask for some advice on another post bacuse I'm not sure what would work best with this setup.

Well I installed it as it came. I cleaned the old thermal paste everywhere. What temps should I be seeing during gaming? I know it depends on lot of things. In the house its usually 22c . I played yesterday a bit of COD and I was getting between 36 - 39c. Here is a picture of the finished build.

Oh so that's not the vram? I'm a noob lol its my first time water cooling a gpu. I was only worried becuse originally the side that on the block doesn't have thermal pad it did have on the gpus original cooler and the other side didn't. Now in the block it the other way around. They put pad on the side that the gpus collier didn't have and they didnt on the one that did in the gpu cooler

I didn't put any thermal pads on the block It came already like this. That's why I'm wondering one side the VRAM has thermal pad other side doesn't? I found a video on YouTube of an u boxing of this same exact block he also doesn't have thermal pad there. So maybe it's supposed to be like this?

So I finally got my water block for my gpu. I took the cooler of my gpu and description says to take off all the thermal compound and pads left on the graphics card circuit board and GPU now here is a picture I'll add. I marked the parts that have pads with yellow. The red is where it's missing and thats the only part that already had a pad on it but I took it off. Was I supposed to leave that on? If so can I put it back? Also do I add more thermal paste on the chip or just the pre applied is enough?

Yeah what do you recommend for front in top out to work the best ? I would rather keep them like this if it doesn't make a huge difference. The fans look better facing the way they are now . Like LeDoyen said right now I have the gpu in there blowing out hot air making the temperature inside the case higher. But once I install the gpu block there might not be as much heat and than flipping the fans wouldn't make a huge difference maybe. So if you set the pump to 100% the water comes out warmer than if you have it at 2/3 speed ? I guess since its pushing the water slower it spends slightly more time in the rads allowing it to cool down bit more no? Well now i know at least that the water coming out of the rads isn't going to be much cooler its just slight difference. I thought there would be at least 5-8c after coming out of rads. On my previous build I had an all in one cooler. In this new build i went for custom because its a big case and i had the space and mostly for looks. But I enjoyed doing it , it was a nice challenge and I'm happy the way it turned out but ofc i wanna make sure everything is set up correctly and working the way it should.

Yeah that makes sense , the top radiator is probably useless right now or maybe just making things worse. For some reason I thought its best to have intake front and exhaust on top and back , but i guess that more so when there is no water cooling involved and you trying to cool your pc with air only. Its just going to be a pain now to flip those, ill wait until my gpu block arrives than ill have the flush the system anyways. Flushing the system will be interesting too , never done it :sigh!: Btw is it ok to add the gpu before the cpu in the loop ? Isn't the coolant going to warm up when passing trough the gpu and than not cooling the cpu as affectively ? Is it better to go GPU > Radiator > CPU > Radiator ?

Yeah the fluid temp does go back down but slowly .While gaming fluid was around 38 or so and cpu around 55-60. After i stopped gaming it started to go down slowly. In like 10 mins it was back to 30. In the picture you can you can kind of see how its set up. I have 6 intake fans in the front. fans /radiator/fans. On top 6 exhaust fans same fans / radiator/ fans. One exhaust in the back. The way i have the loop is Pump/ Reservoir > CPU > Radiator > Radiator > Back to Reservoir. Waiting on my Strix water block and than i will be adding that in before the CPU.

So I'm done my build and I have a few questions. 1. Is the CPU block and the pump supposed to appear in icue devices ? Mine doesn't appear which could be because I don't have them connected yet because the rgb cable is too short and I'm waiting for my extension to arrive. 2. I have a Intel i9 10900k , what temperatures should I be getting in idle / gaming? I realized that when I start my pc usually it idles around 30c . But than if I start gaming it goes up to around 55-60. I think that's normal , but after I'm done gaming it doesn't go back down to 30ish. Stays round 40c or so. Could be because of my house temperatures maybe. Right now for example I'm seeing fluid temps 30c and CPU shows 40c. Is 10c difference normal ? I'm using NZXT CAM to monitor temps. What program do you guys suggest that's the most accurate? 3. I'm a bit confused on how to set up the performance profiles in icue. When I go to create a custom profile it shows the sensor and there is a many things to pick from GPU ,CPU package or cores, ram, motherboard temps. What should I be picking there? and what are some good rpm setups for the fans and the pump ? Here is a pick of the build. https://forum.corsair.com/v3/attachment.php?attachmentid=39919&d=1608713702 Sorry for so many questions. I figured ill buy everything in one instead of making more posts. Thanks!

my fans stop when i turn my pc off. but if i want to control them only 1 from the hub can be controlled the rest are full speed or idk . would adding another commander work ? that would give me 12 fans ports 1 for pump rest 11 for fans. and add 2 y splitters ?

I check every day, and still not available. Even in Europe is available now but still not in Canada . I'm not sure what's going on.. did they forget ? lol

So I built my first custom water cooled pc and i have a total of 13 QL fans in the case. In the commander #6 fan port is for the pump. So that leaves me with 5. I purchased a deep cool hub where i can connect 10 fans. So i did that and than connected the hub to the commander. But i tested it by turning all the fans down to 0 RPM in the commander and the ones that are connected via the hub , only 1 in the hub responds the rest are just on constantly. How can i make this work ? Is there maybe a different hub that would allow control over each fan in it ?

Thanks everyone , I l left all the cables sitting in rice for 2 days . I plugged everything back in after and it all worked . I was lucky no damage was made. But now I have some other questions but ill make a post about it. Here some pics on how it turned out. Just waiting on the Strix 3080 water block to finally be available in Canada. I seen in US its already up for sale in Canada its still "Notify me when in stock " :( Also the pump and cpu block isn't lighting up because i need an extension it wont reach to the commander or anywhere.

Ok so I'm an idiot and feel free to laugh at me I deserve it So I'm building a new pc with custum water cooling all corsair hydro x. I had everything ready installed pump reservoir the loop all concected. As I start filling the reservoir I hear some water trickle and I look under my pc and its comming out. So I forgot to plug the back hole on the pump... Unfurtunerly under my pump in the lower section of my pc I had a HUB for my corsair fans and it all got wet. The fan connectors the sata conector for the hub. Also the molex cable and conmection for my pump got wet. I was using corsair coolant. PC was not under power at all at any time. The rgb cables are ok for the fans only the fan cables got wet. I cleaned of as much as I could with paper towel and than input all thr cables in a bowl of rice. What do you guys think will the fans work? Is it a problem that it wasn't just plain water and it was green coolant? And what about the pump molex cable? Thanks